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ok, I just beamed my settings from the Mac to the ipad again, this time, for the first time today (6 different times) it actually asked me for the password to sync. But it's still stuck on Fetching Remote Database. I know it's big, but it doesn't seem to be moving

Anyway to wipe everything out and start over? or is the ipad just dead?

To wipe everything and start over, go to the iPad's home screen and tap and hold the OmniFocus app icon until it starts to wiggle. An (x) button will appear on the app icon; tap on that (x) icon to delete the app. This will wipe everything having to do with the app from your iPad.

You should now be able to install the app again from the App Store, and configure it to sync your database again. If that still doesn't work, you might double-check that your iPad has free space available: maybe it's run out of room to download your database and that's why it's failing? If that's not the problem either, then I'd recommend calling our support humans on Monday (between 10am and 5pm Pacific Time) at 800-315-6664—it can be a lot faster to walk through possible problems and solutions over the phone.

Nothing annoys me more than finding a post on a forum and not finding the answer. So here's how I got it work again.

I called tech support this morning and Rachel was great in walking me through a few things that I already done, but she wanted me to do it with a new compacted database. So I did that, but it didn't end up working. Not her fault, it's not a small file.

Anyway, couldn't get it working, so I thought I would try to manually push the database to OmniFocus in iTunes. I did that, and it started syncing. No problem. So I recommend exporting the database, as Rachel had me to, and then pushing that to the iPad over the wire (or Wireless Sync). If it's a big database.

This was great, thank you! It was the only way to get OmniFocus for iPad syncing again under iOS 7 Beta.

For others searching for this solution, here is exactly what I did:

(this is ALL on the MAC OmniFocus)
1. On MAC - archived old items (to remove some of the bulk in my 30MB database).
2. File > Export - export Database in omnifocus document format (sved to desktop)
3. File > revert to Database Backup. Then pointed to the newly backed up file on my desktop.
4. File > Replace Server Database - this "compacts" the local database and then replaces the one on the sync server with the compacted one

Then I went into iTunes, then within iTunes to the iPad and then to the APPS tab. Down at the bottom of the APPS tab is a File Sharing section.

Select OmniFocus from the list on the left in the File Sharing section. On the right you should see your OmniFocus files.
1. Select OmniFocus.ofocus file in the list
2. Right click on that fils and select DELETE
3. Hit the ADD button on the bottom right
4. Navigate to the file you backed up in Step 2 above

Let iTunes sync.

Now on the iPad, open OmniFocus. Your database should load up.

Go to the "Gear" icon > Sync Setup...

Select "Don't Sync" and then close.

Go back to the Sync Setup... > select Sync with Omni Sync Server. The if the iPad app asks you if you want to keep the device database of replace with the server, choose the DEVICE, not the server.

Everything synced and worked for me after that. I tested a new item on the mac and then hit sync on the iPad and it showed up. All sync issues solved.

Thanks for this thread and to OmniFocus tech support for helping me with this one.